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[Nick Østergaard <oe.nick@xxxxxxxxx>]

Just a small comment. The windows that Adam attached are actually
Finder, the file explorer thing on macos, that is stylized as part of
the Disk Image file (.dmg). Hence, when the user do the "drag the
KiCad folder to Applications" it is just a  normal file copy. It just
happens that apple peeps "like" to drag things instead of clicking
next.

On Fri, 24 Apr 2020 at 17:35, Michael Kavanagh
<michael@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> This is completely standard. Infact, the .pkg installers that Jon
> mentioned are in my experience very rare (only Microsoft Office and
> MatLab initially spring to mind).
>
> On Fri, 24 Apr 2020 at 15:22, Rene Pöschl <poeschlr@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> >
> > Hi all but especially adam,
> >
> >
> > lately there where a few threads on the forum where installation on Mac
> > came up. The users reported that they installed KiCad by manually
> > copying files around which sounded wrong to me. But as a lot of users
> > seem to be under the impression that this is indeed the right way i am
> > now starting to believe them.
> >
> > If these users are really correct then maybe this should be documented
> > very clearly on our download page. Or if there is any option to automate
> > this process (reducing human error) then maybe this would be the better
> > way to go long term but until then it should still be documented what
> > needs to be copied.
> >
> > One problem i see is if users can copy KiCad files then the libs might
> > not be write protected which would be a problem as KiCad relies on the
> > operating system write protection to avoid users modifying the shipped
> > libraries.
> >
> >
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